Daring Bakers April Challenge – Cheesecake Pops!

I decided to join the Daring Bakers because I don’t know a ton about baking and thought this could be a really cool way to contribute to the food-making in our house. Brad, well, he does all of it. :) I’m a VERY lucky woman – but I want to do my part, too! So this month I participated in the Cheesecake Pops challenge along with the help of Jamie (who you may know as the second-shooter for your wedding!) and it was a success!

We donned “foix” hawks in honor of Top Chef, and our first DB challenge. Brad thought it was hilarious:

Check out the amount of cream cheese we needed:

Sneaking a taste:

Look at how beautiful it is:

Nice, another angle of my foix hawk:

Making a heart:

Yum.

We had to create our own double-boiler:

Check out how beautiful it came out. We let it sit in the freezer overnight:

Next day, normal cute hair:

We got so messy!

Mo wanted to be part of the action!

Our stuffed freezer – we haven’t made ice cubes in I don’t know how long:

The carnage:

The chocolate:

That’s me mastering the dip:

And, yum.

We added spices to the chocolate for some of the pops, and they came out deliciously. Here’s what we used:

So all in all, a success. I don’t like cheesecake but my coworkers do, so they totally lucked out. Jamie and Brad also gave their stamp of approval. I can’t wait until next month!

P.S. A post today means a post break tomorrow :) See you Tuesday!